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[Alaric Wolf Kerensky]

Well look people, they cannot satisfy all of your musical needs. Which is why there are things such as Pandora which you can tailor to your liking and play alongside the games. They are certainly NOT going to put in pop, rock, metal, or anything such as that. I am sure the music they place in the game will be great and appropriate, and no amount of begging anyone does here is going to change that. However, I would enjoy some to be done by Two Steps From Hell if they were willing to write a score tailored for MWO. Their sound is fantastic and varied, and I am sure they could come up with a score with a perfect touch of gritty sci-fi.

[bryt]

MW2 and Mercs did the atmo for Mechwarrior perfectly. I agree that MWO should see a rebirth for the audio design as well... but please do not get carried away. A good composer should be able to take the MW2 era music and create a worthy and refreshing follow up all the same.

Please dont screw this up.... you have no idea what it means to me.

[Zakatak]

I imagine we will be hearing music at the start of the match (a minute or so), with some more music at the end of the match. A light ambience of military drum beats during that match (very quiet but noticeable) bridging the gap.

Bear McCreary would be great.

[Xake]

Akane Yashiro, on 27 January 2012 - 10:08 PM, said:

Most likely I'll end up turning off the default music and replace it with various pop starlets tunes of the day.

LOL. It will not be pop for me though. Usually anything hardcore from rap to industrial is my preferred battle soundtrack.

[Ranger207]

Pure orchestra is a definite NO. Just look at C&C 4, especially when compared to the older games. It may be more "epic," but "epic" is for "epic" games. I'm not saying that MWO isn't epic, I'm saying that epic music is best with large, far-reaching games. In fact, the definition of epic is heroic; majestic; impressively great." [/color]Maybe Lord of the Rings, where the morally-spotless hero orders his mammoth army to charge, but not for a down-and-dirty merc who will do anything just to survive. Go play MW4 and play some classical music during an urban mission, then come back and comment. Classical + some would be much better. Taking from C&C4 above, this is what I'm talking about:

A mix of classic and... whatever else is in there, although the singing past 0:40 is just an unfortunate snip of what they have done to C&C...

(I had to put my other favorite sci-fi universe in here!)

Edited by Ranger207, 29 January 2012 - 11:33 AM.

[Eridyne]

Alaric Wolf Kerensky, on 29 January 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:

However, I would enjoy some to be done by Two Steps From Hell if they were willing to write a score tailored for MWO.

I think you pretty much got the perfect option there. TSFH, or others with similar experience making lots of shorter (and some longer) tracks for every imaginable cinematic score, would be an excellent choice, especially if the devs choose to throw in any sort of adaptive in-game music.

[Harrow]

Alaric Wolf Kerensky, on 29 January 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:

Well look people, they cannot satisfy all of your musical needs. Which is why there are things such as Pandora which you can tailor to your liking and play alongside the games. They are certainly NOT going to put in pop, rock, metal, or anything such as that. I am sure the music they place in the game will be great and appropriate, and no amount of begging anyone does here is going to change that. However, I would enjoy some to be done by Two Steps From Hell if they were willing to write a score tailored for MWO. Their sound is fantastic and varied, and I am sure they could come up with a score with a perfect touch of gritty sci-fi.

I hope they force you to listen to show tunes!

[chill1ray]

Fine then how about in cockpit radio so we can all have what we want!!!!

[Harrow]

chill1ray, on 29 January 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:

Fine then how about in cockpit radio so we can all have what we want!!!!

That would actually be a cool feature. Even have DJs.... 'GOoooooooood Mooooorning Luuuthien!'

[John Clavell]

To be honest. Considering this is going to be an Online only, multiplayer game, I doubt it will have a soundtrack. It at best will have some music for the loading screen and out of game UI.

[ethnic minority]

Not considering the musical budget, I'd like to see mechwarrior move away from the rock/metal filler tracks that were in MW2 and MW4. I feel like that's a cop-out that was better suited to the 90s (ala Doom).

Instead, I'd like to see more thematic music. Bear McCreary(sp?) did it well with the Battlestar soundtrack, and the same was accomplished well in Mechcommander 1's soundtrack as well. Ace Combat soundtracks are another good example. In the context of mechwarrior, the 'western' FedCom would go well with bagpipes and wardrums, whereas the Draconis Combine or Capellan would go with more ethnic woodwind instruments and maybe the odd tribal flavour in order to make seem more 'alien'. On top of those 'specific' flavours, conventional instruments can be used to drown out the 'faction-specific musical motifs' given the context. For example, a menu/briefing screen would be more somber and the specific motif would be more pronounced, but in more intense gameplay, the motif would instead be supplanted by conventional instruments (brass, drums, and then MAYBE guitar/metal) in order to not be overstated/obnoxious. Also, drum and bass.

maybe I'm looking too much into this. I'm no music expert, but I'm a huge composition nerd.

[Smoking GNU]

music similar to the unreal tournament sound tracks would be good especially like the main menu theme

Edited by Zavaz, 29 January 2012 - 02:35 PM.

[verybad]

Hmm, just relistened to some MW2 tracks, and though they're still pretty good, I just don't find them as enthralling as when I first heard them. Needs to be harder IMO.

Don't really care that much about the tracks, if I dont' like them I'll just shut off the music and play my own instead (that's an option that I certainly hope is available)

I would like to hear Tombo drums as the Draconis Combine marches to war...

Edited by verybad, 29 January 2012 - 03:04 PM.

[VoxeL]

verybad, on 29 January 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

I would like to hear Tombo drums as the Draconis Combine marches to war...

Or like this:

[Applejack]

Whatever music the game has, over half of the players are going to mute it so they can either hear their enemies better or listen to other music. Back in the day, quality music for a game meant something primarily because people couldn't listen to anything else without either causing hardware/software problems or they quite simply didn't have anything else to listen to.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love a good soundtrack, but it is not worth the effort with all of the chances players have to play what music they like over the particular music offered in-game.

Edited by Applejack, 29 January 2012 - 03:45 PM.

[Tyzh]

The only thing dated about the MW2 music is it's birthday. MW2 is one of the most immersive games I have ever played, and I know for damn sure it wasn't because of the spectacular graphics. As for MWO, I don't imagine it really needs much by the way of a sound track. I hear it's a PvP game.

[Domoneky]

I agrre with the Music having to be tailored to the situation. Personally I'd Like who ever did the soundtrack to FreeSpace 2 to take the stand. If Dubstep is present then I'll have to burn my computer and purge my ears of such toilet sounds. Two Steps From Hell is a rather good choice as well as perhaps the artist who did Transformers(Name escapes me at the moment). Either way it'll end up the same as usually. some people are happy about it and others hate it. No game or soundtrack will truly ever be 100% liked by its audience

[chill1ray]

ok if they could get something like this!

http://www.youtube.c...bed/daRzIscI4Xw

Edited by chill1ray, 29 January 2012 - 05:56 PM.

[Steel Talon]

something like this

Nice for menu theme

[zeether]

After listening to the MW2 Mercs soundtrack I'd say I'd prefer a soundtrack in its vein. Failing that, they could have an ingame music player so I can listen to it while I'm playing.